VOID II (1980-2018)

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A few million years ago our distant forebears took shelter in the caves. Many millennia afterwards, caves were their studios and galleries, places where the first artists created inspired by their sheer depth and darkness.

Today, we visit caves for very different reasons, but we have the opportunity to look at similar scenes. The interplay of light and shadow, where daylight and the dark of the depths clash, turns the cave entrances into movie projectors and the rock walls into theatres. Perhaps these things were observed in prehistoric times. It is even quite possible that our distant forebears may have used an archaic form of camera obscura to produce cave drawings.

Looking from the caves towards the sky raises some questions: Is our perception essentially different from that of our ancestors? How does our imagination and our fear of the unknown differ from theirs? Did they live in some kind of virtual reality?